So at my house I have two wells: a drill well that is used for everything, and a dug (?) well that... I'm not sure what it is for. It appears to plumbed to an indoor pump & tank and was plumbed to the outdoor spigots, but whoever put it in used CPVC and the piping broke off the pump and it appears to be unused for quite some time. For the last year I've been content to ignore it, until the wife was walking by it, and scared a chipmunk into it... and heard a splash... I don't think you can see it in the photos, but there are like 4 indents around the cylinder, like for getting one's hands under the lid to pull it off. Which make for nice openings for critters to crawl in.
I'm not sure what has crawled into this over the years, so I don't think it's worth opening up and fishing anything out--the wife slid the cover a bit and thought she saw a snake 6-8 feet down, and I'm just not sure it's worth the effort to clean. With that said, is there any value in sealing off the hand holds so that nothing else drops in? Expanding foam maybe? Or is there some good reason for not blocking those holes off?
It might be nice some day to use this other well for the sprinkler system, reduce the load on the main well. That's not on my to-do list for a few years though.
I'm not sure what has crawled into this over the years, so I don't think it's worth opening up and fishing anything out--the wife slid the cover a bit and thought she saw a snake 6-8 feet down, and I'm just not sure it's worth the effort to clean. With that said, is there any value in sealing off the hand holds so that nothing else drops in? Expanding foam maybe? Or is there some good reason for not blocking those holes off?
It might be nice some day to use this other well for the sprinkler system, reduce the load on the main well. That's not on my to-do list for a few years though.